Patient Gains Release In His Mom`s Death

May 29, 1992

CHICAGO — A North Side man who pushed his mother out of a 16th-floor window after she yelled at him for breaking the window was ordered released Thursday from the Illinois Department of Mental Health after two psychiatrists deemed him rehabilitated from his mental problems.

Roger Booty, 32, who lived with his mother, Audrie Freund, 54, at 1636 N. Wells St. in April 1987 when he pushed her to her death, appeared before Cook County Circuit Judge Michael Getty, who ordered Booty`s release over prosecutors` objections.

According to Assistant State`s Atty. Tom Bilyk, Booty had stopped taking medication for depression three months before the killing. Booty was acquitted of the murder and found to be mentally ill, Bilyk said.

Booty, who has been at the Elgin Mental Health Center for three years, will be placed in an outpatient residential treatment center, Bilyk said. The psychiatrists said Booty no longer needs medication, Bilyk said.